By Ogden H.B. No. 2120
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to cemeteries on and owned by the Texas A&M University
1-3 System.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 86, Education Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 86.24 to read as follows:
1-7 Section 86.24. ESTABLISHMENT OF CEMETERY. (A) The Board
1-8 may dedicate Texas A&M University land to be used and operated as a
1-9 perpetual care cemetery.
1-10 Section 711.008, Health and Safety Code shall not apply to a
1-11 cemetery established under this subsection.
1-12 (b) The Board is hereby authorized to disinter and remove human
1-13 remains from a cemetery established in 1901 on the campus of Texas
1-14 A&M University and any such remains may be reinterred in a cemetery
1-15 established under Subsection (a) of this Section 86.24. Upon
1-16 passage of this legislation, Sections 711.004(a)-(f), of the Texas
1-17 Health and Safety Code, shall not apply to the disinterring and
1-18 removal of remains authorized by this Subsection (b).
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars of both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that constitutional
1-22 rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house
1-23 be suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from
2-1 and after its passage, and it is so entered.